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Despite violations against mobile park, policies exploiting residents remain
In a follow-up to a CBS News Colorado community investigation first published in July 2023, advocates claim practices at a mobile home park in the Centennial State have continued to exploit the families with lower incomes who have lived there for more than a year, despite a state agency citing the park's owner with several violations. The park in question is the Foxridge Farm Mobile Home Park on Colfax, just east of the E-470 and I-70 interchange in Arapahoe County. In 2023, CBS News Colorado's Kati Weis spoke with several concerned residents at the park about a host of complaints they had...
Corporate landlords are being accused of price-fixing in housing markets across Colorado
Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser joined several other states and the U.S. Justice Department in a lawsuit against RealPage Inc. last week. The lawsuit claims landlords in Denver use RealPage to fix rental prices by sharing confidential data. This coordination helps landlords agree to raise rents, which, if proven true, is illegal.
Voters in Colorado to decide on 14 ballot measures in Nov., the most of any state in 2024
Colorado voters will decide on 14 ballot measures on Nov. 5, making Colorado the state with the most number of statewide measures on the ballot this year. Seven of the measures are citizen initiatives and seven were referred to the ballot by the state legislature. Two additional initiatives concerning property taxes that had qualified for the ballot are set to be withdrawn by Sept. 6 and, therefore, will not appear on the ballot.
26 states may soon need to regulate cannabis – here’s what they can learn from Colorado and Washington
Colorado and Washington both have legal recreational marijuana. But they regulate growers and dispensaries differently, which has created a David vs. Goliath in the marketplace.
CSP: Aggressive driving may have caused fatal I-25 crash
(EL PASO COUNTY, Colo.) — The Colorado State Patrol (CSP) responded to a fatal motorcycle crash on Friday, Aug. 30, near the Interquest Parkway exit on I-25. According to CSP, around 11:30 p.m. on Friday, troopers arrived at the scene in the northbound lanes of I-25 and found a motorcycle with the rider dead at […]
12-year-old dies after Black Forest crash
BLACK FOREST, Colo. — A two-vehicle crash in El Paso County killed a 12-year-old on Friday night, according to the Colorado State Patrol (CSP). The crash happened just before 9 p.m. Friday at the intersection of Herring and Shoup roads in Black Forest. CSP said a 75-year-old man from Colorado Springs did not stop at a stop sign and broadsided a second vehicle.
Nice Labor Day Weekend ahead!
TODAY: Partly to mostly sunny by the afternoon with highs a touch warmer in the low 80s for Colorado Springs and high 80s for Pueblo. Isolated showers and storms possible across the high country, especially around the Central Mountain Valley. TOMORROW: Sunday will be mostly sunny with a slight chance...
An app for a senior project launches “Seven Percent of Ro Devereux”
The only time I see Miller that summer, he’s walking straight at me in a tuxedo. “Code red,” Maren says, and tugs me sideways into the math hallway. School is quiet—a little over a week before the start of classes, only open this afternoon for senior presentations. I risk a peek around the corner just as Miller’s looking up, a clothbound book tucked under one of his arms. When he sees us, his eyes narrow.
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